title: QGene 4.0, an extensible Java QTL-analysis platform.
abstract: Of many statistical methods developed to date for quantitative trait locus (QTL) analysis, only a limited subset are available in public software allowing their exploration, comparison and practical application by researchers. We have developed QGene 4.0, a plug-in platform that allows execution and comparison of a variety of modern QTL-mapping methods and supports third-party addition of new ones. The software accommodates line-cross mating designs consisting of any arbitrary sequence of selfing, backcrossing, intercrossing and haploid-doubling steps that includes map, population, and trait simulators; and is scriptable.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  Software and documentation are available at http://coding.plantpath.ksu.edu/qgene. Source code is available on request.
authors.affiliation: Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA.
authors.forename: Roby
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Joehanes
authors.forename: James C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Nelson
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology; D003433:Crosses, Genetic; D007178:Inbreeding; D011381:Programming Languages; D040641:Quantitative Trait Loci; D012984:Software